BusinessWeek

If I may borrow someone else's adaptation, soon everyone will be famous for 15 people on the Web. That can even be where wider-world fame starts, because the Net is both farm team and idea incubator from which traditional players steal new notions and talent...Middle-aged pundits Mickey Kaus, author of the long-running blog kausfiles, and Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the centrist think tank New America Foundation, will never get massive on MySpace. But Wright's site bloggingheads.tv,… more

Remember last year's efforts to fix Social Security? In this era of instant news cycles, it is easy to forget. But even though the politicians bungled efforts to restructure the program last year, the issue has not disappeared. Roughly 77 million baby boomers are still preparing to retire. They still don't have enough kids and grandkids to pay the taxes needed to support them in the style to which they'd like to become accustomed. And, in the long run, Social… more